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there he is on the left with rebecca brooks. his latest concern is the mounting pressure on lawmakers to block his takeover of british sky broadcasting known as b sky b, pauline. >> it's not just the uk that murdock is having a tough time. as reported, the scandal is being felt across the globe including murdock's homeland of australia. >>> it's having implications in australia where rupert murdoch began his global media empire. australian-born murdock took over the family business at the age of 22 following the death of his father. well, starting with just one newspaper, murdock went on to acquire dozens more, flounding "the australian." his holdings in australia, which make up 70% of the nation's media landscape, the most of any country in the world. now including eight of the 12 metropolitan dale is plus a 30% stake in "sky news australia." we'll be seeing more. japan relace add statement claiming that the behavior uncovered at the ne"news of the world" is an affront to good journalist and, quote, phone hacking is the an tif
there he is on the left with rebecca brooks. his latest concern is the mounting pressure on lawmakers to block his takeover of british sky broadcasting known as b sky b, pauline. >> it's not just the uk that murdock is having a tough time. as reported, the scandal is being felt across the globe including murdock's homeland of australia. >>> it's having implications in australia where rupert murdoch began his global media empire. australian-born murdock took over the family...
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rebekah brooks may be unable to shed light on what really happened. john prescott think rupert murdoch's got a lot to answer for. >> everybody is scared to do death that he doesn't like so he's the spider in the middle of the when and it's about time we took him on. >> reporter: the chairman in charge of the xwriling is keen to hear why the company previously told him phone hacking was just the work of a rogue reporter, then later admitted that wasn't true. >> we took evidence from senior executives of news international and rupert murdoch has publicly stated parliament was misled. parliament takes that very seriously and so we want to ask him why he has discovered that we have been misled, who misled us and how long he's known about that. >> reporter: for rupert murdoch, this isn't a court appearance but it may feel like he's on trial. for years, rupert murdoch has been behind numerous cruel tabloid headlines. now suddenly he's on the front page himself, and that's a pretty awkward place for a press baron to be, suddenly the target of what they call
rebekah brooks may be unable to shed light on what really happened. john prescott think rupert murdoch's got a lot to answer for. >> everybody is scared to do death that he doesn't like so he's the spider in the middle of the when and it's about time we took him on. >> reporter: the chairman in charge of the xwriling is keen to hear why the company previously told him phone hacking was just the work of a rogue reporter, then later admitted that wasn't true. >> we took evidence...
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couple years ago, he heard of allegations that they were discouraged from repeatededly inviting rebecca brooks to testify. >> the
couple years ago, he heard of allegations that they were discouraged from repeatededly inviting rebecca brooks to testify. >> the
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on the case of rebekah brooks. as i said, i don't think it's right for the prime minister to start picking and choosing who should run, who shouldn't run media organizations. but it's been reported that she offered her resignation over this, in this situation, i would have taken it. but before i take your questions, let me just say this -- for people watching this scandal unfold, there is something disturb being what th dissiturbing about what they se. think about who they put their trust in, the press, the police, and politicians. all of them have been let down. after the questions are over and the truth found out, i want a police that's proved itself beyond reproach. a political system that people think is on their side. and a press that is, yes, free and vigorous that investigates and entertains, that holds those in power to account and occasionally maybe even regularly drives them completely mad. but in the end, we need a free presses that is also clean and trustworthy. that is what people want. that is what i
on the case of rebekah brooks. as i said, i don't think it's right for the prime minister to start picking and choosing who should run, who shouldn't run media organizations. but it's been reported that she offered her resignation over this, in this situation, i would have taken it. but before i take your questions, let me just say this -- for people watching this scandal unfold, there is something disturb being what th dissiturbing about what they se. think about who they put their trust in,...
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they were and in what way we were misled. >> news international's chief executive, are a we can came brooke, has also agreed to be present at tuesday's hearing. ordering a witness to appear before a house parliamentary committee is a rash event. t rare event. the last time it happened was in 1992. nina? >>> well, as brian todd was just saying there from washington in his piece, rupert murdock has already been speaking out. and let's bring you a little more about what he's saying about the escalating scandal. now, murdock told the wall street journal, which of course news corporation owns, that the company will conduct its own investigation into the phone hacking allegations. he also said that he believes the company has handled the crisis extremely well so far, making only might minor mistake. and when he asked how he was handling the negative press attention, he said it's annoying, but i'll get over it. he added i'm tired. we're talking about a man who has built a media empire from australia to all four corners of the globe, but he is 80 years old after all. >> and after all this, anyone w
they were and in what way we were misled. >> news international's chief executive, are a we can came brooke, has also agreed to be present at tuesday's hearing. ordering a witness to appear before a house parliamentary committee is a rash event. t rare event. the last time it happened was in 1992. nina? >>> well, as brian todd was just saying there from washington in his piece, rupert murdock has already been speaking out. and let's bring you a little more about what he's saying...
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right now is the deadline, we're told, fora bekaa brooks, the embattle embattled chief international to respond before a committee of politicians on wednesday. we're told 9:20 is the latest she could respond. after that who knows what will happen after that. theoretically she could be forced to attend by the sergeant at arms' office which is sort of an old ancient office here. they've never, in recent memory, had to frog march someone into committee but that's a possible prospect if she decides she won't turn up or answer the invitation. they cant force rupert and james murdoch to turn up because they're not british but rebecca brooks they can. >> dan rivers joining us live from london. many thanks. >>> in the u.s., members of congress are calling for a home grown investigation into hacking and bribery allegations against newscorp. u.s. senator jay rock feller is among those who's asking the justice department to look into reports that newscorp executives allegedly bribed police officers. if americans were involved, rockefeller who you see there, says the company may have violated fe
right now is the deadline, we're told, fora bekaa brooks, the embattle embattled chief international to respond before a committee of politicians on wednesday. we're told 9:20 is the latest she could respond. after that who knows what will happen after that. theoretically she could be forced to attend by the sergeant at arms' office which is sort of an old ancient office here. they've never, in recent memory, had to frog march someone into committee but that's a possible prospect if she decides...
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rebecca brooks remains in her post. but her friendships with the likes of tony blair and david cameron is on the real strain, as the true scale of phone hacking becomes apparent. dan rivers, cnn, london. >> as we said, advertisers are trying to distance themselves now from the scandal. let's look a few of the names. ford was the first company to announce it was suspending advertising in the paper and taking its business elsewhere. that opened the floodgates. and many more companies have followed suit. virgin holidays withdrew this weekend's adverts and said it will continue to monitor the vision. halifax has done the same. saying it will assess the longer implications. vauxhall, renault, say they will wait until the investigation is complete. and many are reviewing their ad placement plans. and we heard that a british utility group said it's going to withdraw advertising from "the news of the world." >> all of the allegations come at a sensitive time for newscorp. its owner, chairman, rupert murdoch, is trying to take o
rebecca brooks remains in her post. but her friendships with the likes of tony blair and david cameron is on the real strain, as the true scale of phone hacking becomes apparent. dan rivers, cnn, london. >> as we said, advertisers are trying to distance themselves now from the scandal. let's look a few of the names. ford was the first company to announce it was suspending advertising in the paper and taking its business elsewhere. that opened the floodgates. and many more companies have...
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his son james and news international ceo rebekah brooks will also testify on july 19. on tuesday london police officers publicly answered questions about this scandal. assistant commissioner john yates said he regretted his decision to not pursue inquiries of breaches back in 2009. nina? >> pauline, police carrying out the current inquiry at the moment are saying they're examining thousands of pages of evidence as a result. we should also mention that only 170 people have actually been told that they have been targeted during this alleged hacking. that's just a fraction of what may be the real total. that's today's big number we're focusing on at the moment. 3,870, that's the total number of possible hacking victims whose details were found in those notes seized by a private investigator working for news international. he was jailed back in 2007 after he admitted phone hacking when he was employed by the news of the world, he admitted he undertook phone hacking. as a result he was jailed for six months. again, we're getting the names of the people, pauline, saying they
his son james and news international ceo rebekah brooks will also testify on july 19. on tuesday london police officers publicly answered questions about this scandal. assistant commissioner john yates said he regretted his decision to not pursue inquiries of breaches back in 2009. nina? >> pauline, police carrying out the current inquiry at the moment are saying they're examining thousands of pages of evidence as a result. we should also mention that only 170 people have actually been...
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parent company news corp is still in london and standing by his embattled chief collective rebekah brooks but her position is precarious, now that more of the operation has been dragged into the scandal. news international issued a statement saying "so that we can investigate these matters further we ask that all information concerning these allegations is provided to us." it was the revelation that murdered school girl milly dowler's phone had been hacked into that caused this story to explode. her family met senior government officials monday to seek reassurances about a promised inquiry. their lawyer voicing concerns about links between the prime minister and rupert murdoch. >> the first visitor to ten downing street after the general election, first visitor to david cameron the visitor was rupert murdoch. questions need to be asked about the relationships between them and that's why we say that there needs to be a judge which has a power to compel witnesses to attend so that we can force them to be there to answer questions under oath to give evidence properly, not to shy away from it
parent company news corp is still in london and standing by his embattled chief collective rebekah brooks but her position is precarious, now that more of the operation has been dragged into the scandal. news international issued a statement saying "so that we can investigate these matters further we ask that all information concerning these allegations is provided to us." it was the revelation that murdered school girl milly dowler's phone had been hacked into that caused this story...
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. >> reporter: it was now the time for rebekah brooks. >> we have paid police in the time for past. i have never knowingly sanctioned a payment to a police officer. i was referring to -- if you saw at the time of the home affairs select committee recently that you had various crime editors from fleet street discussing that in the past payments have been made to police officers. i was referring to that wide held belief, not widespread practice. in fact, in my experience in dealing with police, the information they comes to newspapers comes free of charge. >> reporter: the scandal has come at an incredible cost to news international. a year ago the name murdoch put fear into the hearts of many british politicians. today it was clear the politicians had no fear. dan rivers, cnn, westminster. >>> there was no question about how investors felt about the hearing. news corp stock jumped by 5.5% on the nasdaq to $16.25 following an extended decline over the past two years. felicia taylor measures the impact this scandal has had on news corp's bottom line. >> it was a long day of testimony b
. >> reporter: it was now the time for rebekah brooks. >> we have paid police in the time for past. i have never knowingly sanctioned a payment to a police officer. i was referring to -- if you saw at the time of the home affairs select committee recently that you had various crime editors from fleet street discussing that in the past payments have been made to police officers. i was referring to that wide held belief, not widespread practice. in fact, in my experience in dealing...